National Transport Museum of Ireland is definitely a famous tourist attraction that one must visit while touring the country Ireland. The museum exhibits various vehicles from the old days that have become extinct in present days. Here we will be providing you with information on the National Transport Museum in detail.
The transport museum of Ireland was originated in the year of 1949 to preserve trams as national heritage. Starting its journey on voluntary charity, now the museum has become a limited company of registered charity that operates with help of international museum standard. Located in the Heritage Depot of Howth Demesne, the museum has a good collection that is increasing day by day. The oldest item available at the National Transport Museum dates back to 1883 where as the newest item is of 1984.
The museum started its journey with just 25 vehicles and according to the survey in 2001, the museum at present has a collection of 170. The transport exhibits at National Transport Museum can be broadly divided into five categories such as Commercial, Fire & Emergency, Passenger, Military and Utility.
To visit the national transport museum, you can opt for the following bus and train service:
730 meter from the Howth Dart Station and 365meter from the castle gate bus stop. You can avail the Bus No 31 from Lower Abbey Street. The contact detail of the National Transport Museum is given below to help you to get in touch with the authorities if you want to arrange for a group tour.
Heritage Depot, Howth Demesne, Howth, Dublin 13.
Phone during opening hours (01) 832 0427
Opening times: Sept - May: Saturdays, Sundays & Bank Holidays: 2:00 - 5:00 pm June - August: Monday - Saturday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
If you are interested in rare and old vehicles, then this museum is sure to be your place of interest. This museum consists of a lot of unique exhibits that are sure fun for transport enthusiasts. Scroll down to get an idea of the advantages and limitations of this popular National Transport Museum:
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Advantages:
You get to explore the huge collection of unique, preserved, restored vehicles.
You will get some unique exhibits - civilian and military.
Limitations:
The arrangements of exhibits are not very impressive
The museum has restricted opening times.
The authorities of the museum try their bests to update their collection regularly. They have a great collection of equipment, artefacts, documents and other items out of which some are on display. To survey all, you have to take prior permission from the museum authorities.
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